TEST DRIVE MEME: Good weather?

[theearth]

IT'S SPRING
I almost literally can't believe it isn't snowing right now just to piss me off.

How it Works
Due to the nature of Save the Earth, it's a more complicated process to play in than most other games. With this in mind, it can't hurt to experiment a little.

Post your character and in the comment share a few details regarding their reincarnation. Repeat if you have multiple ideas you want to try out, as many as you like. It's also suggested that you set a scene and there's a few prompts below to help there, but think outside the box if you like. Then tag around to other threads and help your fellow prospective players to test out their characters and the variations on them. Don't be afraid to presume a little CR to make a scene flow more freely, or to assume an Echo or two. If you have an app, complete or in progress, you might want to link it.

Current players may also use these meme to test out specific future Echoes, or as a general meme. Certain scenarios may even be transferred to game canon if both parties agree and it does not conflict with in game events.

Prompt 1: Location

The Park
The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip whatever go to the park.
Ice Cream Parlour
Don't lie, this is the first place you want to go the moment the sun even half appears.
The Pool
That, or here.
At Home
Because naturally when it's a nice day you want to cower inside.
Barbecue Party
Abandoning all paranoia, everyone has turned up at a barbecue. It's the wildest party imaginable.
Beach
Apparently Locke City has one. I bet it's nice.
Country Hike
All that nature out there can be visited too.
The Street
Oh man, this is the worst location prompt ever. I apologise.

Prompt 2: Event
Suddenly, Rain
And here's you in just a white shirt and short shorts.
A Public Echo
One of those places up there triggers an inexplicable Echo. Are you going to have to grab a hat to hide those new horns? Maybe it's even your first.
A Date
I hear nice weather gets people in the mood for romance. I'm against it, personally.
Here on Business
Mysterious goings on have been detected in the area and it's your job to check them out. Some suggested shenanigans could include plants that try to eat people, a red herring new statue or maybe this thing popping out from behind a bush to play a saxophone in an irritating manner. Go nuts.
Getting Used to a New Echo
Maybe this one is a pain in the butt, either if because it's noticeable or hard to control. Or maybe you just like to practice.
Everything is Normal
Things aren't bizarre 24/7, you know.
Alien Invasion
The Martians* are attacking! They want our brains/world/women/hot dogs. Take these freaks out... or cower in terror.

*Martians are not actual Save the Earth villains.

Comments

[perfecting]

[ the life of an Allegry are lonely by definition. there are many rumors of them, some true and some aren't and mostly they are respected but they are also feared. lucia knows it well, it has been her share for most of her life, no matter where they went, the name brought great things with it but also some things that she preferred to do without.

so it surprises it when the girl turns to her and she smiles, something charming and sweet; not honeyed, but rather sweet like the summer breeze and the flowers. ]

I would say! I spent far too many hours being cooped in covered in sweaters and drinking tea. Now spring is here and I'd hug it tight if I could and never let it go!

[diamondlight]

[The girl smiles.] I don't know, I think I'd still take the tea. But I agree otherwise.

But what would you do now? Just... sit outside and contemplate the spring? Curl up with a good book, perhaps?

Prompt 2!

[hikarigato]

[Sally Mondragon is a private investigator, but is for now on no case, and intends to spend a few of her possibly a few days' spare minutes in front of the parlor with the little cup of raspberries-and-cream and tiny spoon in her hand.

It's still in her nature to snag details, perhaps. Her steps pause when the mother(?) near the front of the counter who she passes by stiffens quite suddenly, addresses the little girl with a changed and half-present tune.

Sally turns her head a bit, with a tilted head.]

Ma'am. Are you okay?

[whoyougonnacall]

A: RAIN

[Mamoru hears the thunder, and sighs up at the sky.]

...aw, man...

[And he's nowhere near his apartment, too. As the raindrops start falling, he ducks into a covered bus stop to wait it out. Maybe you were there first?]

B: STREET/TALKING TO GHOSTS

[There's a weird guy over there who looks like he's...talking to thin air. What a freak. Check it out?]

C: STARBUCKS

[Because his part-time job involves striking up conversations with almost anyone who comes in. Or maybe he's hanging out outside on a break? Either way, he'll be friendly!]

B

[hollowleg]

[Shiro is on his way... somewhere. Riding down the streets of Locke City on the death trap crotchrocket, he doesn't seem to be in any hurry. Maybe he's even just out riding for fun! But at a red light, he spots someone he's intimately familiar with standing at the entrance to an alley, talking to nothing.

Again.

Shiro flips on his blinker and parks on the sidewalk like a grade-A asshole and clips his helmet on the bike, exchanging his prescription goggles for his regular glasses]

Well, well, well. If it isn't my very best brother, Haley Joel Osment.

C

[face_kick]

[This tiny, weird customer who won't take her giant sunglasses off seems to be staring at him instead of pondering the pastry case from where she's standing, just to the side of the line.]

[Just staring. For a weirdly long time.]

[Staring.]

[alderaanda]

[Also B! Natasha, Nat, knows this isn't one of the parts of the city where you get people hanging around talking to themselves. Still, she might have passed him by on her important errand of meandering around, if not for her weakly returned, untrained Force-Sensitivity. Nat can pick up on... something... a kind of emotion in the air, maybe a swirly smoke shape out of the corner of her eye, but she hasn't regained that self-tuning that lets her properly perceive such things.]

[It's enough to make her stop. She's just gonna hang back and watch, unwilling to interrupt, trying to figure out what's going on on her own.]

[deadshallspeak]

[Naomi doesn't answer directly, just nodding at the woman and taking her call.]

This is Naomi.

[She listens for a moment, frowning as she does.]

Right now? It's--yes, I know. But I'm on the other side of the city and I'm out with Anna right now. Have you tried Mark? Do that.

[She hangs up and checks her phone one last time before pocketing it, meanwhile forcing her frustration under control for Anna's sake.]

I'm sorry about that. Have you decided what flavor you want?

[whoyougonnacall]

[Oh god dammit, the peanut gallery is the last thing he needs right now.]

One of these days, I'll get one of them to haunt you.

[whoyougonnacall]

[...he doesn't scowl and demand to know what you're looking at. Instead, he gives you a half-nervous grin.]

Uh, hey! Can I help you?

[hollowleg]

[the peanut gallery pulls a partially eaten stick of beef jerky out of his pocket and starts gnawing on it]

Yeah, I'm real scared of the things that may or may exist. What's the story here? [because he does like to hear about the various gruesome ways that Mamoru invents for these phantoms of his]

[whoyougonnacall]

[...aw, shoot. He did not mean for anyone to see him doing that. When he notices Natasha, his eyes go wide.]

...yeah, I'll call you back, okay?

[Then he makes a show of miming pulling something out of his ear, like a bluetooth. Maybe if he bluffs, she won't think he's crazy.]

Uh...hi.

[whoyougonnacall]

[There was a time when he would have told you -- back when they were younger, before they spent time apart. Now, Mamoru just folds his arms.]

None of your business.

[hollowleg]

[he huffs, taking a particularly vindictive bite of his beef jerky] Fine. Be that way!

[though Mamoru, you may be noticing that your ghost friend, whoever they may be, is staring at Shiro with a perplexed look. And maybe even a little... scared?]

[whoyougonnacall]

You don't have to get all huffy about it. What's the big deal? You never believe me anyway.

[He hasn't noticed yet, but he will in a minute.]

[hollowleg]

Well I'm curious! Is this a dangerous part of town? Was it a mob hit? Was it a car wreck? Did someone throw a penny from the top of that building? [he points up!]

[alderaanda]

...Hi.

[Nat tries to see... whatever it is out of the corners of her eyes, looking everywhere but at it. It doesn't resolve into anything clearer.]

-so what is that?

[whoyougonnacall]

See, this is what I mean! If you died, would you want me to use you as a cheap horror story?

[He glances back at the girl, and notices that she looks super uncomfortable. He mutters under his breath:]

Sorry...

[whoyougonnacall]

[Play it cool, play it cool...]

What is what?

[hollowleg]

Yes!! Especially if I died gruesomely and all gross and shit! Then they'd make a movie and I'd be posthumously FAMOUS! And you could be rich.

[Mamoru, what did you expect when you asked that. Really.

The girl, on the other hand, backs up a bit. She mutters something, "He's scary. What's wrong with him?"]

[alderaanda]

[She's not impressed.]

That. The... swirly emotions thing. [Her head wavers as she tries again to see it, she's sure it reacted when she said that.] Yes, you. I know you're there.

[whoyougonnacall]

...

[He looks unsure. Does she really know that someone's there, or is she trying to make him admit that he sees things that aren't there? Or maybe she's just nuts.]

What exactly is it that you're seeing?

[alderaanda]

It's kind of like smoke, but there's a shape... [She squints, then her eyes fly wide. She takes a step back, and looks at Mamoru.]

-Eyes. And eyes. What on earth?

[whoyougonnacall]

[To the ghost girl:]

He's an idiot. Just ignore him.

[hollowleg]

Hey! Are you even listening to me?

[She shakes her head and backs up into the wall of the alley a bit.

"No, it's not just that... he... he has a hole."

Shiro, meanwhile, doesn't like being ignored in favor of THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST and he shoves Mamoru a bit]

And this is why you don't have any friends, Mamoru! [except he does] Because you'd rather talk to yourself than, say, YOUR BROTHER.